Dasuki in ploy to evade trial, FG says

The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, is working hard to evade trial by asking the court to discharge and acquit him in the charges of illegal possession of firearms and money laundering.

It would be recalled that Dasuki was last year arraigned before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on one-count charge bordering on illegal possession of firearms but was rearaigned on October 27 last year on an amended five-count charge, in which he was also accused of breaching the Money Laundering Act.

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Dasuki however filed an application accusing the prosecution of breaching an order of the court, allowing him to travel abroad on medical ground, insisting that his re-arrest him and detention amounted to breach of the court’s order, praying the court to discharge him because his continual detention has robbed him of the opportunity to prepare his defence.

However, the lead prosecution counsel, Dipo Okpeseyi (SAN), Thursday said if Dasuki is allowed, he would frustrate his trial, arguing that the application, in which he sought among others, to restrain the state from further prosecuting him and or quash the charge against him, was intended to obstruct government’s prosecutorial powers.

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